03/05/2010

White Chocolate-Butterscotch Cookies

Rating (1-10): 7

If you've been reading my blog since January, you know that I'm focusing on one chapter of Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook for two months at a time. January and February I focused on the first chapter, simple baked goods, and now that it's March, I'm focusing on cookies. I'm so excited to make lots of these cookie recipes. I started with the white chocolate-butterscotch cookies, because I'm a total sucker for white chocolate.

Side Note: My sister-in-law knows how much I love white chocolate, so she sent me a white chocolate candy bar that also had bits of shredded coconut in it. Talk about heaven. I was trying to eat only a couple pieces of the candy bar each day to limit caloric intake and to make it last longer. I had it sitting next to my computer, and my computer got so hot that it melted the candy bar. I had half of it left, so I did what any self-respecting woman would do - I licked it off the wrapper. And it was delicious.

Now that you understand my love for white chocolate {I don't like milk chocolate unless it's my time of the month or it's mixed with other yummy stuff like caramel and I NEVER EVER eat dark chocolate - yuck} you'll understand that you almost can't go wrong with me if the dessert has white chocolate in it. But this cookie completely disappointed me. It was too rich, and the butterscotch flavor didn't do anything for my taste buds. I gave it a 7, because everyone else liked them, including my husband who had about 5 of these giant cookies. I'm glad others could appreciate my hard work - but they better not get used to them, because this recipe is going on the "not gonna make it again" list.